Google AdSense

Targeting AdSense Ads

December 25th, 2007 at 04:19pm Under Google AdSense

Google AdSense has added the ability for publishers to target their AdSense ads to the content they think best suits their site so ads shown on their sites should only show relevant AdSense ad units.

Many sites have a lot of recurring content: headers, menu, footers and anything else you might find on every page of a site.

This can cause problems for your SERPs (diluting your keyword rich content) and the relevancy of your AdSense ads.

For example this site has a variety of content including a few posts about the World of Warcraft Gold and Leveling guides and I see a lot of ads that match this content on pages that have nothing to do with this content.

By SEO Dave 7 comments

WordPress Theme Kubrick with Google AdSense

October 6th, 2006 at 07:37am Under Google AdSense+ WordPress Themes

Kubrick is my fifth in a series of AdSense converted WordPress theme.

Kubrick Theme with AdSense Installation Instructions

Download the kubrick-adsense-02.zip file below

Download Kubrick with AdSense WordPress Theme

Unzip and edit the file adsense.php within the /kubrick-adsense-02/ directory to include your Google AdSense code (read the readme.txt file for more details). Upload, select theme “Kubrick AdSense 02″ and you are done.

Drop a quick comment below if you installed this theme, I’d really like to know what you think.

Popularity: 6%

By SEO Dave 7 comments

WordPress Theme Ocadia with Google AdSense

September 12th, 2006 at 10:29am Under Google AdSense+ WordPress Themes

Ocadia is my fourth in a series of AdSense converted WordPress theme. Like the other themes I converted, Blix, Connections and Almost Spring, it uses 3 blended Google AdSense units per page

WordPress Ocadia theme with Google AdSense Ads

The screenshot below is the home page of Edo Blog which was used to test the theme. You can see the top AdSense ad units and the menu ad unit in the screenshot, the final AdSense unit is located at the bottom of the page (336×280 rectangle unit).

Click for large screenshot of theme

All archive type pages use the same ad units and placement.

By SEO Dave 8 comments

WordPress Theme Almost Spring with Google AdSense

August 30th, 2006 at 10:38pm Under Google AdSense+ WordPress Themes

Almost Spring is my third AdSense converted WordPress theme. Like the first two themes I converted, Blix and Connections, it uses 3 blended Google AdSense units per page

WordPress Almost Spring theme with Google AdSense Ads

The screenshot below is the home page of Music Red which was used to edit the theme. You can see the top AdSense ad units and the menu ad unit in the screenshot, the final AdSense unit is located at the base of the page (336×280 rectangle unit).

Click for large screenshot of theme

All archive type pages use the same ad units and placement.

By SEO Dave 29 comments

WordPress Theme Connections with Google AdSense

August 15th, 2006 at 09:18am Under Google AdSense+ WordPress Themes

Connections is my second AdSense converted WordPress theme. Like the first theme I converted, Blix, it uses 3 blended Google AdSense units per page in what I think are the best locations (without ruining the feel of a blog).

WordPress Connections theme with Google AdSense Ads

The first screenshot shows the home page of Internet PT which I used to edit this WordPress theme (may not be using it now). You can see two of the three AdSense ad units in the screenshot, the third unit is located at the bottom (336×280 rectangle ad unit).

Click for large screenshot of theme

You will find the same ad units and placement for all archive type pages.

By SEO Dave 36 comments

WordPress Theme Blix with Google AdSense

August 13th, 2006 at 08:20am Under Google AdSense+ WordPress Themes

I now sell AdSense ready WordPress 2.3 Themes and Blogspot Templates at Google AdSense SEO Themes and Templates.

Check the WordPress ones under the WordPress Themes section.

The free Blix AdSense theme below is version 02, my version 03 Blix theme is MUCH better optimised, more AdSense options (including targeted AdSense coding) and Blix code fixes for WordPress 2.3 (includes tags support), full widget ready and can be found at Blix with AdSense + SEO 03. If you are looking for the very best WordPress SEO themes version 03 are by far the best available today: If you can show me just one better SEO theme for WordPress 2.3 I’ll give you a copy of ALL of mine for free, I’m that confident mine are the best on the market by far today.

By SEO Dave 73 comments

Add AdSense to a Wordpress Blog

July 28th, 2006 at 07:36pm Under Google AdSense+ WordPress Themes

As you can see I use the AdSense program on this the More Earnings Blog. This post will explain how other Wordpress users can achieve a similar use of AdSense on their Wordpress blogs.

If you are feeling lazy check out the WordPress Themes category on this site, you’ll find WordPress themes with AdSense already added. Popular themes like Blix, Connections and Almost Spring all with AdSense added.

Update: I now sell WordPress Themes with AdSense/SEO at Google AdSense Themes. These include a file designed for novice WordPress users to set options like ad colour, ad unit sizes, channels, border corners etc… though if your a complete technophobe (like my wife) adding your google_ad_client (the pub-number) is all that’s needed (if you can copy and paste one small line of text you can setup my themes) to have your site have the same level of SEO/AdSense ads you see on my sites like these-

By SEO Dave 24 comments

AdSense Revenue

May 8th, 2006 at 12:31pm Under Google AdSense

Time I gave some AdSense tips.

I own a quite a lot of web sites, but most of them are relatively new (like this site as I type this) or not fully developed yet (creating content etc… takes time). Even so I make quite a bit of money from Google’s AdSense program and I expect this to increase significantly over the next 12 months as new sites climb out of the sandbox.

I started with AdSense end of Feb 2004 with my literature sites. I did everything wrong because I didn’t consider AdSense important. So stuck a single AdSense ad on the right menu at the bottom (see heat map below for why it was a mistake) and it’s no surprise revenue sucked (out of 5,000 to 10,000 impressions the sites made just over a dollar at times!!).

By SEO Dave 3 comments